04/08/2021
University
of Sheffield Chess Society: Current vs 1970s Alumni
An on-line match
was played on 04/08/2021 between Sheffield University players of the
present (“Current”) and past ones from the 1970s (“Alumni”). Older
S&DCA members will remember most of the Alumni. Of the Alumni,
only Phill Beckett is still active in chess in the S&DCA. Others
are still active chess-players elsewhere, though two seem now inactive in
“serious” chess. The result was as follows:
|
Current
|
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2˝‑3˝
|
Alumni
|
Present
Club
|
play
|
James
Luong
|
B
|
˝-˝
|
Phill
J Beckett
|
Worksop
|
play
|
Kacper
Mytnik
|
W
|
˝-˝
|
Charles
L Higgie
|
Malpas
& Oswestry
|
play
|
Kyle
Reed
|
B
|
1-0
|
Bob K
Taylor
|
Syston
|
play
|
Alec
Morgan
|
W
|
˝-˝
|
Brian
Moore
|
?
|
play
|
Alexander Pelosof
|
B
|
0-1
|
John
Walmsley
|
?
|
play
|
Jamie
Wright
|
W
|
0-1
|
Chris J McSheehy
|
Fleet & Farnborough
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(Click
on “play” by a game to play through it on screen, using “back” in browser
to return to this page.)
After 5 games had
finished, the score stood at 2˝-2˝, but a win from Chris McSheehy converted
that to a win for the Alumni.
A further game
between Oliver West (Current) and Richard S Hughes (Alumni) is scheduled
for the 10th August. That resulted in a win for the Alumnus, Richard Hughes,
giving a final score-line of Current 2˝-4˝ Alumni.
PS (24/03/2022)
Jon Nelson happened upon an article, dated 15/12/2022, posted by Richard
Hughes on the SU Alumni website at https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/alumni/news/life-boards-chess-sheffield-1970s.
This includes recent photographs of Richard (facial features perhaps
vaguely familiar 36 years on) and John Walmsley.
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